NEW YORK: George Clooney has been designated by
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a United Nations
Messenger of Peace, to raise awareness of the world
body’s peacekeeping efforts. Mr. Clooney, who will
join eight other internationally renowned individuals
as...(read more)

INDIANAPOLIS, IN: IUPUI basketball coach Ron Hunter
got his pedicure, his game victory and more athletic
shoes than he'll ever be able to carry to Africa in
July. All on bare feet. Hunter completed one of the
most inspirational walks this basketball season by
coaching Thursday night's game shoeless
for...(read more)

HOLLYWOOD, CA: The film War Dance about Patongo
students/refugees competing in the National Music
Competition has been nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Documentary Feature. (read more)Watch the trailer

NAIROBI, KENYA: Hungry refugees in Tanzania are
eating chimpanzees and other endangered species in
order to supplement their meager diet, international
conservation group Traffic said on Tuesday. It said
refugees living near national parks in northwestern
Tanzania were also illegally...(read
more)

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN: Bibi Shido can’t sleep at
night but it has little to do with the fact her bed
is nothing more than a pile of blankets on the ground
of a makeshift tent in temperatures that have dipped
below 10 degrees this unusually frigid winter. The
grandmother of 11 is...(read more)

MALABA, UGANDA: Two weeks after violence erupted in
Kenya over a disputed election, refugees are still
trickling over the border into Uganda to reverse a
tide of thousands that have fled bloodshed in the
other direction. Looking tired and fearful as they
...(read more)

GULU, UGANDA: With huts being demolished and camp
services cut, refugees now dread armed thugs and
stalled peace talks. Christine Alanyo lives in the
Lacor refugee camp, but would like nothing more than
to finally settle in her home village, less than five
kilometres away. But Alanyo, 23, is afraid
that...(read
more)

CHAD: The sun rose and fell, spinning their shadows
like a needle on a broken compass. They walked on
swollen feet, breathed though dry throats, watched
the horizon. Someone shouted. Men on horses trotted
into...(read more)

CAIRO, EGYPT: According to the UNHCR, of the
estimated 2.2 million Iraqis who have fled their
country since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003,
some 70,000 came to Egypt. However, various local
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the
Egyptian government estimate their number to be
between 100,000 and...(read more)

KENYA: UNHCR is providing relief supplies to tens of
thousands of Kenyans displaced by the recent turmoil
in the East African country, where they already care
for more than 270,000 refugees from elsewhere in
Africa. They're making available...(read
more)

NEPAL: The United States will accept 10,000 Bhutanese
refugees living in Nepal under the first phase of a
refugee rehabilitation program, U.S. ambassador to
Nepal Nancy J. Powell said on Wednesday, according to
local media house's website THT Online Thursday.
Powell said...(read more)